Visual artist Bernard Voïta’s interest lies not so much in photography as a technical medium but rather as a medium of perception, a means of visually transforming reality. Although he uses a camera to produce his works, he maintains he is not a photographer. What appears at first sight to be montage or collage proves to be a complex, three-dimensional installation in the studio, which seems like a two-dimensional image only from one specific perspective. His meticulously composed pictures thus have no equivalent in reality. Named after the famous engraving by Albrecht Dürer, ‘Melencolia’ is an elaborately handcrafted, long-term project that is intellectually and visually challenging.

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ISBN 9783907205440
64 p, ills bw, 25 x 32 cm, pb, German/English